Levi didn't know why but he was more than slightly irritated. He had planned to have meal together with his pretend girlfriend after they visit her best fried in the hospital. They would go to the fancy chinese restaurant and then maybe they could talk about the next plan about their relationship. Their fake relationship.

He clicked his tongue, feeling annoyed. Well, there was no way they could talk about it with that kid around. Her kid. He had complicated feeling about this. Of course she might have kid or anything and it was none of his business but there was a weird feeling in his gut when his eyes met the kid's green ones. From the way the boy looking at him, he knew the kid didn't like him, it didn't matter really, but he had this unsettling feeling in him which made him worried about something he didn't even understand.

Chinese restaurant turned into family restaurant near the hospital, not a place he would usually choose to eat, and the two of them turn into three.

"Mama, who is this guy?"

"Eren..." Zoe tried to scold her son but to Levi she didn't seem like she was trying at all, "Umm, this is Mr. Levi, he is my... uhm, client..."

The boy frowned, didn't like it at all, he knew what she had been doing to get money and he had never been happy with that, "you are sleeping with this guy, Mama? Is he the reason you hadn't been home these days? Are you going to move in with him?"

"Well kid, your mama is living with me, and she will stay with me from now on," Levi sneered, ignoring Zoe's glare at him, "what? That's the truth?"

"Only for a while," Zoe said quickly, she kicked Levi's leg under the chair, "Mike told you that I have business to do, right? I am sorry I haven't come home but I will... Oh and I will call you too. You're still staying with Armin, right?"

The green orbs looked into her hazel ones, "are you gonna leaving me, Mama?"

Zoe felt her heart broke at his tone. That was an innocent question. She knew he didn't mean bad by asking that, but somehow, it hurt her heart when he looked at her like that and asked that question. How could he thought that she would throw him away. He was her son and she would not have heart, never, to do that. All the thing she did was for him. She would never abandon him for any man in this world. Even though that man is Levi.

"Oh Eren..." Zoe shook her head, "I would never do that! I have to stay with Levi for now, but I promise I would keep contact with you through Nanaba and Mike okay? Oh... when this is over I would buy the basketball shoes you've always wanted, the one like that Reiner kid's. How does it sound?"

Levi drank his drink as he eyeing the young boy. He looked nothing like Zoe except for his dark hair. His skin was tanned and he was rather skinny for a boy his age but his face looked older than his age. His green eyes looked like he was angry about something but he wasn't sure what, maybe the kid was angry at the world for letting his mother working as a whore. Who knows.

Eren's eyes met with Levi's icy blue ones. He didn't say anything but somehow Levi could understand what that meant. The brat wanted to make sure if his mother would be fine with him. Stupid brat, who he thought Levi was? Levi might be rude and rough but he had no intention to do anything to hurt the woman. They had a deal and he didn't have any intention to break it. However, Levi understood the brat's feeling, he also would do anything for his mom—including paying a prostitute to play his pretend fiancee.

The older man somehow had a complicated feeling about this. He didn't want it to be more complicated than now, but he had a feeling that he had to do something about it, to prevent a bigger problem in the future.

"You know what," Levi sighed as he put down his cup, "let's do this, you two could see each other every Sunday afternoon. Around lunch maybe, or dinner, you choose. I will tag along of course, to avoid trouble."

Eren looked suspiscious but he looked at Zoe who looked surprised and happy at the same time.

She clapped her hands excitedly, "we could do that? Seriously?"

Levi shrugged, "Yeah, why not."

"Why should you tag along?" Eren grunted, "I don't wanna see you every Sunday."

"Shut up, brat," Levi scolded the boy, "don't get it wrong, it's not like I want to see you every Sunday. If you don't like it, we can always cancel this arrangement, and you couldn't meet your mother until her business with me done—let me remind you it is not anytime soon. So take it or leave it."

Eren's face turned red. He clenched his fists on the table and gritted his teeth meanwhile Levi rested his back and folded his arms, he looked at the boy with a bored look. Eren frowned and turned at Zoe as if to ask her to punch Levi in the face. Zoe laughed instead. She pat Eren's head and messed his dark hair.

"It is a good idea, isn't it, Eren! I bet Levi would love to treat us lunch or dinner every Sunday!" Zoe gave the man a teasing look.

He tsk-ed, "fine, no problem."

Zoe blew Levi a kiss. The man rolled his eyes and they boy looked at the man with a killer gaze.

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"How old is he?"

Zoe was sitting on the carpeted floor, her back rested on the couch, she had just taking a shower, her hair was wet but she didn't bother to dry it first before turned on the TV and watched it. She was wearing a black tank top and blue short. Her eyes were on the TV screen but she could hear Levi walked closer, from the smell of the familiar soap scent, she knew he also had just taken a shower.

His question was vague but she knew who he referred to.

"He is 15 yearold." She laughed nervously, "surprised?"

"How old are you?"

Zoe bit her lower lip when he sat on the couch, she could smell his soap and shampoo.

"Does it matter?"

Levi thought for a moment, truthfully, it didn't really matter. To be honest, Zoe looked a bit younger than he was, but who knew her real age, and he didn't really actually care about it. "well, it doesn't."

"Then I won't answer that."

"Ok."

For a moment both of them didn't say anything but it wasn't awkward. Weird, but Zoe kind of like it. It wasn't like her to enjoy silence but when she was with Levi, she didn't mind it. She could hear him sighing and looked up at the man, tilting her head to meet his eyes.

The man fold his arms in front of him, he lifted his brow as if telling her to say anything she wanted to say, he was waiting.

Zoe smiled, it seemed like they started to understand each other that they started to be able to communicate with their eyes only.

"Thank you," Zoe said suddenly, she blushed a little but grinned widely to hide it, "you know, you don't have to do that—letting me to see Eren every Sunday, but you did it. It means a lot to me... You know that boy had noone but me, so it's hard for him without me..."

Levi kept her stoic face but Zoe swore she could see his ears turned a bit pink when he frowned at her, "well, it's nothing. I just did that to avoid trouble, the brat looks like a troublemaker, who knows what he might do if he couldn't see you for another months."

Zoe nodded, that was true. She knew her son, he wouldn't mind to do anything crazy—just like her. But still, Levi was a man with power. He could just... Well, it was levi after all, he might have his own reason and she wouldn't question it this time.

"That thing aside," Levi narrowed his eyes as he looked at the woman, "tell me when was the last time you wash you hair, it stinks!"

Zoe pouted, ever since she started living with Levi, she took a shower almost everyday. Almost. Well these few days they hadn't had any lunch or dinner to attend so she hadn't wash her hair, but it hadn't been that long, she swore. She couldn't be that stinky.

"Well, excuse me!" Zoe frowned, imitating Levi's face and failed, "I washed my hair two days ago!"

Levi groaned, not only had she tried to imitate his expression and fail but the stupid shitty glasses also hadn't washed her hair for two fucking days—and to think that he let her sleeping in his bed. Oh, no, it wouldn't happen tonight. Levi stood up from the couch and grabbed Zoe's arm. He didn't give a chance for the girl to fight as he pulled her on his way to his private bath room. Zoe was still wearing her hotpants and baggy t-shirt when her fake fiance started the water.

"H-hey... You don't..."

Levi didn't let her continue her sentence as he started washing her hair forcefully. Zoe yelped as he poured his shampoo on her head and massage her scalp. It felt better that she thought. He was rough when he pulled her into the bath room but as he massaged her scalp, he was actually being gentle—well as gentle as a Levi could. And after he finished washing her hair, it surprised her that he didn't stop at that. He actually dried her hair with a clean towel and using a hairdryer.

"I feel like a princess you know," Zoe laughed as she sat on the carpeted floor once again and Levi back on the couch with her between his leg, drying her hair using a hairdryer, "it felt so good!"

"A princess, really?" Levi snickered, "I felt like a vet grooming a dog."

Zoe laughed at that.

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She couldn't sleep at all that night. She felt weird, after she saw Eren this evening. It was surreal to be at the same table with Levi and Eren at the same time. It seemed like both boys disliked each other but for an unknown reason, deep inside, Zoe thought that Levi and Eren could actually get along together, in a weird way—maybe. She couldn't believe that Levi would do that. He would let her seeing Eren every Sunday! She started to think that maybe, deep inside, Levi was a nice person. Well, no, she knew he was actually a nice person. She just didn't understand why he tried so hard to be meany to anyone.

Zoe took a deep sigh, she wanted to move but she afraid that she would wake the man up. It had been few days since they start this sleeping arrangement and this was the first time she couldn't sleep in this position. Normally, having Levi's arm around her and feeling his steady breath could lull her to sleep but tonight was different. It had been two—or had it been three?—hours since they went to bed and she couldn't sleep at all. There were so many things in her head, yet at the same time, she couldn't think about anything.

She worried about something she didn't know—if that were even possible. Something she couldn't explain. She should have been happy because Nanaba seemed to get better than the last time she saw her, it seemed like the medication worked on her, plus she had given Mike some money for that damn Nile... She saw Eren and Levi promised to let her seeing him every week... Those supposed to make her feel relieved.

What was wrong with her?

Everything seemed wrong. Her hair felt so silky after he washed it, her sleeping in the same bed with him, his hands warped around her waist, his breath on her neck... Those were so wrong, yet felt so right. Suddenly, she was afraid for the future. She enjoyed this moment but after this, all of this, ended, what becomes of her?

Zoe closed her eyes and forced herself to sleep but she couldn't.

"Couldn't sleep?"

Zoe opened her eyes but said nothing. She could feel Levi moved closer to her, she knew from his voice that he was half asleep. He sound almost gentle when he talked.

"Something in your mind?" his warm breath tickles her neck as he spoke.

"Many things," because Zoe knew he wouldn't believe 'nothing' and that he would not ask further, "too many things running in my head."

Levi sighed, "ok," he said sleepily, he inhaled her scent and mumbled, "your hair smells good."

"It's your shampoo." Zoe laughed, "it smells like you."

"Maybe I should wash your hair again..."

Zoe closed her eyes and smiled.

She would not mind that.